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“Sleep in peace! Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thought of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them.” p.368

“As we gather all these things together, I remember the days we spent, where we got them, what was sometimes said, and how the sun, for most of the time, was shining.” p.77

“ ‘Where there’s a secret,’ she says, ‘there’s shame - and shame is something we can do without.’ “ p.19

“…and it seemed to him that he looked suddenly into the heart of an enemy and saw there love and understanding.” p.356

“Fair and perilous; but only evil need fear it, or those who bring some evil with them.” p.338

“Don’t you see that doesn’t work? The lying and avoiding are what make things worse.” p.237

“Father Kelly called him a wanderer. On a Sisyphean journey to forget, Alice had thought. Or to forgive himself.” p.162

“These were not the last words she’d said to her brother, but they might as well have been, for the way she would regret them.” p.113

“Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.” p.227

“She realized that she hadn’t tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.” p.215

“She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn’t been true solitude.” p.126

“There will be many things you don’t understand.” p.65

“She wishes there were nothing but doors ahead of her, which she could walk through one by one, leaving everything behind.” p.16

“But I would try, and when I failed, I would try again.” p.321

“Forgiveness is a gift only God can give you, baby. But me? I raised a child who shoulda known the difference between sugar and salt.” p.220

“I lived in the promise I’d made the moment I birthed them: to pull a world that was good to them from the depths of its horrors. I owed them the impossible.” p.128

“I was just a fragile thing in a sharp world, like every other girl is before they meet themselves, before they meet their child and know what it means to be tethered.” p.6

What a mess tbh

Main character has called this man a “DILF” twice….he is not a father. #checkyourfacts

“I fan my face, refusing to let a single tear fall because thugs don’t cry.” p.104

“Not everyone can live their biggest dreams. Not everyone can feel at ease. Maybe it’s the constant edge of wondering what next? that keeps me going, and I just need to get used to it.” p.11

“What an evil fortune! And I am already weary.” p.330

“He wished with all his heart that he was back there, and in those days, mowing the lawn, or pottering among the flowers, and that he had never heard of Moria, or mithril—or the Ring.” p.318